tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 02 15:25:52 1996
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RE: Embedded wh-questions
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Embedded wh-questions
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 96 22:47:50 UT
December 02, 1996 1:06 PM, jatlh Holtej:
> Now, what I'm wondering is, how do we say, "who do you think the officer
> hit?"
>
> 'Iv qIp yaS 'e' DaQub?
>
> This doesn't feel right to me. It doesn't feel like we're questioning the
> matrix clause here. It feels more like "Who did the officer hit? You
> think that." Other attempts by my mind to twist this into a more
> reasonable form (semantically) fail syntactically.
It's interesting: are you suggesting that we don't like this because of
English bias (that of moving the question word up to the matrix clause)? I'd
like to hear more . . .
Of course, I'd just say {'Iv qIp yaS? yIngu'!}
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